Very Rare Blue-Painted Walnut Windsor Dish-Top Candlestand, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Circa 1795
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January 20, 12:37 AM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
Very Rare Blue-Painted Walnut Windsor Dish-Top Candlestand
Chester County, Pennsylvania
Circa 1795
Retains its original blue-gray paint.
Height 29¼ in. by Width 19⅝ in. by Depth 19⅝ in.
Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America: A Pictorial Study of the History and Regional Characteristics of the Most Popular Furniture Form of Eighteenth-Century America, 1730-1830, (Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1981), p. 54, pl. XIII.
"This rare and delicate candlestand was covered with mid-nineteenth century, dark brown, grained paint. The effect was rather gloomy, and the turnings were sticklike. When the brown graining was removed by careful dry scraping, the original pale blue paint was revealed, and the importance of the original color to the total design became apparent. In pale blue, the slender turnings take on light and shadow, and the form is shown at its best." - Charles Santore, 1981
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